Maraci G. Aubel possui mestrado em Latin American Studies da Universidade de Kansas (2011). Atualmente é estudante de doutorado na Escola de Educação com foco em politicas educacionais no ensino superior na Universidade de Kansas. Maraci G. Aubel, PhD student of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the School of Education and M.A. of the University of Kansas at the Center of Latin American Studies. She was born in Brazil and has been living in the United States for almost two decades. Her research includes an investigation of educational policies in higher education that attempts to give access to all students. She focuses on recently implemented Brazilian Scientific Mobility Scholarship Program in order to unveil its impacts on participant?s gender, region, race, and socio-economics status. Currently, she teaches advanced Portuguese in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.